§ Mr. LARDNERasked the Chief Secretary if he will state when an application was received from Mrs. Margaret M'Gonnell to be reinstated in the farm in the townland of Knocknagrave, county Monaghan, on the estate of Sir John Leslie, from which her deceased husband, Hugh M'Gonnell, was evicted; what reply was given by the Estates Commissioners to her application; will he now state the grounds for their reply; and will he cause the case to be reopened and inquiries made with a view to seeing if this applicant can be provided with another farm instead of that from which her husband was evicted?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners received on 25th August, 1906, an application from Mrs. Margaret M'Gonnell seeking reinstatement in a holding formerly occupied by her on the estate of Sir John Leslie and now in the possession of another tenant, and after inquiry and consideration decided to take no action in the matter. Mrs. M'Gonnell was so informed, and the Commissioners see no 1877W reason for altering their decision in the matter. It is not the practice of the Commissioners to state the reasons which actuate them in the exercise of the statutory discretion vested in them.